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I Left Hospital Only to Find My Brother And Husband Died 90 Days Back-Musician

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How would you react if you get out of hospital after weeks there only two learn that two people in your life passed away and were buried without your knowledge?

Obviously sorrowful, angry, confused and a feeling of being ignored.

That is what happened to Kikuyu secular artist Maggie Sonnie of the song “Hinguria Maitho” (Open Your Eyes) in 2007.

Maggie was in August 2007 admitted at Tumutumu hospital in Nyeri after her six months pregnancy developed complications.

Her fiancée John Maina and her brother Douglas Mwangi planned to visit Maggie in the hospital but they never made.

The stretch along Kenol-Murang’a road where the accident occurred.

It was after three months the musician learnt they were involved in accident in Murang’a as they drove from Nairobi, they perished and were buried.

Maina and Mwangi hailed from Mukurwe-ini and were workmates in a city company.

They were involved in a head-on collision with a truck along Kenol-Murang’a road but the tragedy was kept a secret to Maggie who was weak in hospital bed.

“I was still in vulnerable condition in the hospital. Relatives feared if they told me about their deaths it would have worsened my condition. I wish they did. I should have attended the burial” Maggie narrates with a heavy heart.

Their bodies were kept few blocks away from her hospital bed but she remained in the dark besides a bad feeling something happened to the two as days turned into weeks.

Shocking: "I learnt of hubby,Brother deaths 3 months after burial"-Singer  Maggie - Daily Active

 “I suspected the worst because the two called me as they left Nairobi then their phones went off hour later. My kins and friends would visit me and seemingly tried to hide some sorrows” she reveals.

She was shattered when she found out what happened but says she holds no bitterness with anyone.

She has kept away their photos which she says bring sad memories and pain.